“Your older son is your intellect. He says, oh, don’t do this, don’t do that. He’s trying to reconcile make sense of a prosaic and material world. The younger son being the wild feral entity that he is wants to go out in the world and find out what it’s all about. So in his […]

We have a a final few early bird tickets for the Reinvention Summit still available. Friend of the Innovation Show Alexander Osterwalder joins a stellar line up including Rita McGrath, Seth Godin, Patagonia Chairman Charles Conn, Former Harvard Business School Dean Kim Clark and mant more.. It is going to be fantastic. If you buy

“The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever

“Incorporating uncertainty into the way we think about our beliefs comes with many benefits. By expressing our level of confidence in what we believe, we are shifting our approach to how we view the world. Acknowledging uncertainty is the first step in measuring and narrowing it. Incorporating uncertainty in the way we think about what

“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” — John Maynard Keynes. In the dying moments of Super Bowl XLIX, a coaching decision became one of the most debated in football history. With just 26 seconds left on the clock and the Seattle Seahawks down by four points at the

“Whenever smart and well-intentioned people avoid confronting obstacles, they disempower employees and undermine change.”― John Kotter “Since the strength of the chain is determined by the weakest link, then the first step to improve an organisation must be to identify the weakest link.”― Eliyahu Goldratt [TL;DR In the world of strategy and innovation, the key to success

“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” — John Kenneth Galbraith In a 1994 study by Hollyn Johnson and Colleen Seifert, researchers led participants to believe that flammable materials caused a warehouse fire. Even after being informed that this

“Change and innovation in human endeavours follow adaptive evolutionary mechanisms akin to change and innovations in biological nature. Evolutionary mechanisms describe the brutal reality of how hard it is to change and innovate or even survive in nature and culture, not in the narrow sense of the culture of an organisation, but human endeavour broadly.

“Deep in most of us, below our awareness, indelibly implanted there by three centuries of the industrial age, is the mechanistic, separatist, cause-and-effect, command-and-control, machine model of reality. If you do not think your internal model of reality is not largely based on the machine as metaphor, carefully keep track of every thought and every

“Once a detective decides that he or she has found the killer, the confirmation bias sees to it that the prime suspect becomes the only suspect. And once that happens. an innocent defendant is on the ropes… Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is…True scientists speak in the careful language of probability.” — Carol Tavris